Re: [Plugins-writers] Nmap Plugin

From: Paul Johnston (paul@private)
Date: Mon Dec 22 2003 - 03:56:12 PST

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    Hi,
    
    >Another concern is that it's very intrusive and tons of services don't
    >like to receive binary data and such. This problem is lightened by the
    >fact that the assumptions regarding ports in the service file prevent
    >nasty stuff from happening.
    >
    Here's a thought... have a "nmap -sV" wrapper as a trusted plugin that 
    runs after find_services and all the _detect.nasl plugins. It uses nmap 
    to try to identify all the unknown services. I guess you'd probably mark 
    it as ACT_DESTRUCTIVE_ATTACK.
    
    Paul
    
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